The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-08-05
LABOR NOTES.

The bakers have sixty unions and a.
600 members.
The 5000 brewers of Cincinnati who
are knights have withdrawn from the order be-
cause Of the temperance plank in the new con-
stitution.
Michigan Labor paper says there are
$4,000 knights in the State, and that 5000 never
heard their platform read, 5000 do not believe
its propositions, and $4,000 vote against it.
The aggregate loss to the building
trades of Chicago by strikes is $1OOOo,OOo The
boot and shoemakers have lost between $1,000
900 and $60O0,000 during the past year.
The European immigration agencies
are translating brilliant descriptions of the
condition of American mechanics, laborers
and farmers for the benefit of those they want
to bring to this side.
There are 10000 to $4,000 men en-
ployed at the woolwich arsenal, England,
which covers $50 acres, exclusive of the dock
yards. There are seven miles of railway. There
are eighty chimney stacks, one of which is $40
feet high.
During the past six months 361 saw
and planing-mills have been started in the
South which will work up 500,0O0,000 feet of
lumber. The increase is going on. Lumber
men think too rapid progress is being made.
Lumber is q tri1e higher all around in the
West.
During the first half Of the last four
years, beginning with 1883, the number of
buildings erected in New York was respect
lively 1928, 2,45S, 1904 and 1889; and the sums
invested were, in round figures SAT 600 600, $38,
100000, $27,000,0O0 and $29,0O0O0O. This years
Investments are twenty per cent. ahead
Of last year.
Architects are predicting very busy
fall and winter. Much interior church, office
and residence renovation will be done after the
outdoor season shall have been closed. The
alteration of house fronts, leading architects
say, will soon become very important feature,
and each house will be made to look different
from its neighbor.
The falling away from the Knights of
Labor will likely decimate that organization.
Those Withdrawing entertained misconcep-
ton as to the aims and methods of the organiza-
ton. Professionalism will profit by the de-
lection, and the Knights will hold powerful
nucleus for another advance when work shall
be scarce and wages lower.
The window-glass output for the past
yCN1A was SsScVsVOO DOAcss Oub VI 1,UNU pOtS, Vi
100000 boxes over the previous year. There
are l,l43 pots in all, and 189 are being built, OF
which 120 are in the West. The ], $50 pots that
viii run during the coming year, beginning in
September, will turn out 1000, 600 boxes, which
is double the capacity of 1881.
During the past six months there were
623 strikes reported, involving 234, 73l persons.
against 200 strikes for the first six months last
ycar, involving 363S95 persons. OF the former
$500 were in the building trades, and 81, 739 in
transportation. In iron and steel mills there
were only 1900 strikers, lumber, go molders,
1928; boot and shoe workmen, 17,495. This
year only 1880 workmen in the machinery
trades struck, last year to date, 81, 100, and
among the lumbermen the number reached
10000 Among clothing manufacturers, the
number this year was 2,736, last year to date,
$780, This year $1,000 coal and coke miners
struck, last year. $4,000.